Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>]

Paul Shirley, you wrote:
> 
> Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com> writes
> >> Unfortunently what they are
> >> saying is only they can make money from this effort.
> 
> No. What they are saying is you can make money under the LGPL licence
> terms *or* pay them some money for normal commercial terms (ie no
> source/object distribution required)

That's correct, except that the cygwin library is available under GPL
terms, not LGPL terms.  That is quite a significant difference.  If it
were LGPL'd, then you could use cygwin without having to release source
to your application, but you can't do that under the GPL.  So the
current situation is that if you want to use the cygwin library, and
you don't want to release source, then you have to pay Cygnus for a
commercial license.

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